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General CommentI think this song is about our childhoods, and how eagar we were to venture into the world, we were all hell bent on succession. But then the teen years roll around and everyone's made mistakes and screwed up their life bad. Longing for how we used to be, happy go lucky with something to hope for and live by. And you watch your friends turn from young perfect children to suicidal, or getting in a mess with teen pregnancy, and other mistakes many people have made time after time, and chances we should have taken, gone now, and no one's giving us a ride into the world, and its hard and again we're wishing for what used to be.

General CommentGreat song. This song makes me think about when you are younger you go into the world with aims. You all have high aims like doctors and vets and hairdressers. But when you get older you realise this may not be realistic. Things can get in the way of things like this that kids hadn't planned on. You look back on when you were a kid when you thought you could make it big and every thing was so simple and wish you were back there.

General CommentThis song is blunt with no hidden meaning. When you were six suicide or drugs werent even in your vocabulary so it's just growing up, seeing and hearing shit that is depressing or what have you. "Longing for used to be."
not my fav but like 2# fuck yeah
btw #1 is gone away.....look into it

General CommentThis song is about how as kids we are so innocent and have big dreams, being doctors scholars, etc... but when they become exposed to all the evil stuff in the world (suicide, teen pregnancy, dong drugs and overdosing). Because once you go that path there's no gong back. It's the teenage dilemma, "longing for what used to be." After all the cruelest dream is reality!

General CommentEvery person named in the second verse of this song I know one of them: I knew a girl who had a chance, but got pregnant....I know a guy who rather sit and do drugs and nothing more....I have a friend who committed suicide(really got to me) and I have a friend who OD'd and almost died.....Unfortunatly the "Cruelest dream is reality" AND mentioned above about teens making the "wrong desicions" its true.....As we see in this song, MISTAKES ARE HARD TO UNDO

Wait, did we live in the same neighborhood then? lol. My best friend Jason commited suicide 6 years ago. When he was 20 and I was 19. A good friend of ours, Brandon o.d'd on heroin just last year and died. My ex high school girlfriend Jamie dropped out of school in 9th grade, pregnant with her first child, she has had 5 now. She was head of the student council and in mostly honor classes. My friend Mark is a guitar player in garage bands. He smokes pot and drinks heavily. I think he may have a job now, at McDonalds. I am not joking at all. I think this song was written about my old neighborhood name by name. I am going to have to see if Dexter Holland grew up aroung me somewhere lol. Seriously. It's uncanny!

Wait, did we live in the same neighborhood then? lol. My best friend Jason commited suicide 6 years ago. When he was 20 and I was 19. A good friend of ours, Brandon o.d'd on heroin just last year and died. My ex high school girlfriend Jamie dropped out of school in 9th grade, pregnant with her first child, she has had 5 now. She was head of the student council and in mostly honor classes. My friend Mark is a guitar player in garage bands. He smokes pot and drinks heavily. I think he may have a job now, at McDonalds. I am not joking at all. I think this song was written about my old neighborhood name by name. I am going to have to see if Dexter Holland grew up aroung me somewhere lol. Seriously. It's uncanny!

General Commenti totally agree with insanity x! now that ive read that comment, ill never hear this song the same way again. it is by far one of the greatest songs of all time dontcha think? and its message is so cool. how could anyone not think this is a good song?!? i was gonna add my own interpretation, but insanity x has got it on the dot! way ta go!
and yeah, this song is sad when you think about it. the more times i hear it the better and sadder it gets.